From the moment Donald Trump became President Elect and the Republican Party control of both Houses of Congress was renewed on November 8, 2016, everything Americans fought, died and sacrificed every day, these Parasitic Parasites began to contaminate and mutilate and has now tossed us into “Stage 4 Cancer.” There isn’t any “Stage 5.”

Donald Trump, enabled by Republicans have corrupted and demoralized the United States in ways that never transpired since its inception in 1776, and the hemorrhaging continue with no abatement in sight. Trump is lying even more than he lied as a Private Citizen; Violating the Constitution every day with corruption, nepotism, treason and wrecking everything that made America great. The most difficult thing in all of this are the Republicans that always cling to being Patriots, have suddenly become bankrupt of Patriotism and they continue on their own journey of taking away Health Care, Social Welfare with their unbelievable Tax Scam that they are trying to pass off as Tax Reform.

Donald Trump, the life time racist and one of the world’s most corrupt people, enabled by the Republican Congress are taking America down the Abyss. The free fall is so expeditious that it is difficult to ascertain whether or not America can be saved before Donald Trump is removed from the Presidency and Republicans lose control of Congress. To many, this concern may not be on their minds, but unless or until America wakes up to the devastation of the country that is taking place, the United States may become exactly what Russia was, subsequent to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

The American Corporate Media that didn’t do their jobs as they should have in 2016 is one of the main reasons we have a culprit and treasonous in the White House. With such devastating tragedy in Las Vegas, “Neither” the Media, Republicans or Donald Trump would call Stephen Paddock a Terrorist. Why, solely because Stephen Paddock is a “White American.” Had it been a Black Man, Mexican or Muslim that committed this heinous act; from the White House to the Halls of Congress and across the Media spectrum, “Terrorism would be the Headlines for days or even weeks to come.”

The Weapon [s] Mr. Paddock used to kill and injure so many, it has no business to be in the hands of any Civilian. It is egregious in war, much less on the Streets and the Homes of Americans. But, Republican just like Donald Trump and the NRA, they prey on their Base because, they are uninformed, ignorant, mostly uneducated and brainwashed. All you need is a Gun in one hand and a Bible in the other! No emphasis is placed on Education because the dumber you are, the more likely you will Vote Republican. Quite frankly, America’s Evangelicals, Donald Trump and Republicans, are America’s ISIS!

If Republicans, especially Mitch McConnell were really True Patriots as they pretend to be, “they would put America First and no one would have to demand an Independent Investigation. They would do exactly what they did with Benghazi and Hillary Clinton’s emails. But as we are witnessing from Trump and the Republicans, Hypocrisy Is A Fatal Tragedy For America.”

The Trump Russia Nexus – New York Times: “Many unknowns remain, but here is what we know about the collusion story so far.”

“The acting director of the F.B.I., Andrew McCabe, told Congresson Thursday that President Trump’s firing of James Comey has not derailed the agency’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. Which is good news. Despite Mr. Trump’s assertion that the idea of collusion is “a total hoax,” and despite many unknowns,the links continue to pile up. Here is a partial accounting of the connections we do know something about.

THE TRUMP FAMILY BUSINESSThere may be no Trump Tower in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but it is not for lack of trying. Mr. Trump and his family have sought to do business in Russia since at least the 1980s. They have also developed extensive commercial and personal relationships with politically connected Russian businessmen. In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told a real estate conference, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York,” according to eTurboNews, a travel industry news site. The author James Dodsonsaid that another son, Eric Trump, told him in 2013 that Russians have bankrolled Trump golf courses: “Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” Eric Trump denies saying that.

In addition, Donald Trump worked with the Agalarov family, a prominent Russian business group, to host the 2013 edition of his Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Mr. Trump met more than a dozen of the country’s most prominent oligarchs while he was there, Bloomberg News reported. Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump and is a senior adviser to the president, has also been caught up in the Russia story. During the transition, Mr. Kushner met withthe Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, as well as with the top executive of a Russian government-owned bank.

The world would know much more about Mr. Trump’s foreign partnerships if he had released his tax returns, as every president has done for the last 40 years.”

[NYT] WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama has bridled for years at the confines of life in the White House and has tried to steer clear of the partisan messiness that has consumed her husband and is fueling this year’s bare-knuckled presidential contest.

But this week, Mrs. Obama will wade into the campaign fray on behalf of Hillary Clinton, putting her broad popularity and reputation for authenticity to work for a candidate who has suffered from a lack of both.

At an event in northern Virginia on Friday, Mrs. Obama will urge voters to register ahead of the state’s Oct. 17 deadline, the first of what aides say will be a series of appearances in the coming weeks in support of Mrs. Clinton.

Mrs. Obama’s steps into the campaign spotlight underscore her transformation from a once-reluctant political spouse into a confident public figure, a role she says she has embraced more fully during President Obama’s second term.

Mrs. Obama’s communications director, Caroline Adler Morales, said the first lady’s focus would be on encouraging voters in swing states, particularly young people and African-Americans, to register and vote.

Her message, Ms. Morales said, will emphasize “the qualifications and demeanor a president need the values we hold dear as Americans and our shared hopes for the future.”

Mrs. Obama previewed her pitch in July during a Prime Time Speech At The Democratic National, in which she delivered a testimonial for Mrs. Clinton as a leader who could be trusted to carry on Mr. Obama’s legacy. It was also a quiet but sharp denunciation of Donald Trump, whom she did not name, in which she took aim at his campaign slogan and derided him as a cynic who viewed the world’s challenges in terms of 140-character posts on Twitter.

Even as Bernie Sanders moves up in the polls, many people are realizing that there’s a big hole in his coalition: black voters.

Barack Obama won a razor-thin victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries seven years ago in large part because black voters supported Mr. Obama by a 5-to-1 margin. Without their support, he would have lost, and lost big — probably by more than 20 points in the national popular vote.

As a result, many have framed Mr. Sanders’s challenge in racial terms. But his challenge in getting the support of nonwhite voters is not simply a problem of race. It’s primarily a problem with moderate and less educated Democrats, regardless of race, which disproportionately affects his support among nonwhite voters. His challenge among black voters may be no greater than his challenge among ideologically and demographically similar white voters.

It’s not very fair to Mr. Sanders, or any liberal Democrat, to judge his support among black voters by comparing him with Mr. Obama. In 2008, there was a strong relationship between the proportion of a demographic group that self-identified as liberal and Mr. Obama’s strength against Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obama lost all of the least liberal groups of the Democratic Party, except black voters.

Without Mr. Obama’s unusual strength among black voters, another challenge to Mrs. Clinton on her left would struggle to keep Mrs. Clinton from doing well enough on moderates to deny her the nomination. The easiest way to think about Mr. Sanders’s challenge is to remember Mr. Obama’s weakness among Hispanic voters in 2008. Over all, Mr. Obama lost Hispanic voters by 26 points against Mrs. Clinton — worse than his margin among white voters.

Mr. Obama’s weakness among Hispanic voters didn’t fit neatly into the conventional explanation of Mr. Obama’s challenges in 2008. Commentators often presumed that Mr. Obama was weak among less liberal and less educated white voters because of racism, so they undertook tortured efforts to fit Hispanic voters into the same frame, arguing that Hispanic voters wouldn’t vote for a black candidate, perhaps because of urban rivalries between blacks and Hispanics.

Hillary Clinton has spent all of her adult life protecting Children, Women’s Rights, Minorities and to date, despite all of the phantasmagoric rationales and internecine accusations, Mrs. Clinton has never been charged for any crimes whatsoever.

George W Bush, Dick Cheney and the entire G W Bush Administration sat around with threats months in advance that Al Qaeda was determined to strike within the Continental United States Using Aircrafts as Lethal Weapons and on August 6, 2001 the Presidential Daily Briefing [PDF] specifically headed that day’s report, Bush and his administration sat around until 3,000 Americans including other Nationalities were killed in the 9/11 horrible terrorist attack. To date, no Republican has ever really asked any serious question about that negligence, but to this day, Republicans are still carrying on about Benghazi.

Under President Ronald Reagan we had 13 attacks that killed 93 people; and if you count the Marines Reagan sent to Lebanon where 243 Marines were killed in one day from a suicide attack, the shock is still there. Under George W Bush we had 7 attacks that killed 51 people and under President Obama and Hillary Clinton we had one attack, Benghazi, that killed 4 people, and three years later at a cost of 57 million dollars to the taxpayers; 13 Investigations, Republicans are still beating the conspiracy drum on Benghazi.

Just how long the Right Wing, uninformed, ignorant, uneducated, brainwashed GOP voters would take to see that their Republican Leaders for who they are; CROOKS, LIARS, THIEVES, WAR MONGERS, THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT THE 1%.

[VOX] Hillary 101

Hillary Clinton is iconic to both her fans and her detractors. At the end of 2014, for the 13th consecutive year, she was named the woman that Americans most admire in the world. And yet politicians, authors and talk show hosts, including some liberals, have made careers out of demonizing her.

Now, for the second time, she is seeking the presidency, and one of the highly polarized views of her will win out in 2016.

To understand why one person simultaneously inspires so much enthusiasm and so much enmity from the American public — and to understand what has propelled her from mountain to valley and back again — you have to carefully examine the mix of ambition, determination, policy acumen, and political maneuvering that drove a conservative Midwestern girl to become the Democratic Party’s best hope for winning the presidency in 2016.

And you have to understand that her political life has been lived in an era of increasing polarization, decreasing trust in public figures and institutions, and perpetual electoral politics.

Clinton’s long tenure in the eye of the national political storm — a quarter of a century by Election Day 2016 — makes her unique among this cycle’s crop of presidential aspirants. By contrast, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz are new on the landscape. Democratic rival Bernie Sanders was elected to Congress two years before Clinton came to Washington, but his profile has been much lower. Even Jeb Bush, whose father and brother were president, has never before been a national political player in the way Clinton has been as first lady, New York senator, secretary of state, and two-time presidential candidate.

All that time in the spotlight has brought concomitant scrutiny, and the file on Clinton is thick. Its pages are filled with gritty battles, triumphant victories, bruising defeats and humiliations, scandals and pseudo-scandals, political resurrections, policy evolutions, and too many contradictions to count.

It’s almost too much for anyone to process at once. After all, Clinton herself already has written two full-length memoirs. One instructive way of trying to grasp who Clinton is today, and where she came from, is to look at the defining moments of her public life, from overachieving student to political spouse to high-ranking government official.

[NYT] In “Let the People Vote” (editorial, June 5), you are right to applaud Hillary Rodham Clinton in making voting reform a top priority. However, I firmly believe that this issue is not about Republican versus Democrat. I believe that all Americans want the same thing: a fraud-free election in which as many citizens vote as possible. It is a disgrace that turnout in America ranks 138th out of 172 democracies around the world.

It is common sense that if you want to fill voting booths: 1) you don’t hold elections on a single working day when many people with two jobs and single working parents can’t vote; and 2) you make it as easy as possible for all citizens to register, and today that means electronically.

I won’t accept the notion that any of the candidates, Democrat or Republican, who hold themselves out as capable of leading our nation think otherwise. For example, Senator Rand Paul has publicly asked, “Why don’t we be the party that’s for people voting, for voting rights?” and has introduced a bill to restore voting rights for nonviolent felons in federal elections.

So I call upon all candidates for president to follow in the steps of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Paul by speaking up on ways to increase voter turnout.

ANDREW YOUNG

Atlanta

The writer, a former member of Congress, mayor of Atlanta and ambassador to the United Nations, is currently chairman of Why Tuesday?, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing voter turnout.